Pixel.Noted

Capture any part of your screen in an instant.

Mark up and annotate with clean, simple tools.

Screen Capture

Grab exactly what you need.

Full Screen (⌃⇧F), Region (⌃⇧R), Window (⌃⇧W) — or Scrolling capture, which auto-scrolls a long page and stitches it into one tall image. Include the cursor or hide it, set a countdown timer, and pick your display on multi-monitor setups. Every capture opens straight in the editor.

Screen Recording

Hit record. Get a real MP4.

QuickTime-compatible H.264 MP4 — no conversion needed. Record a full screen, a region, or a single window. Add a live webcam overlay and microphone audio, and pause or resume from a floating HUD you can drag anywhere on screen.

Annotation Tools

17 tools. Everything stays editable.

Arrows, text, callouts, shapes, highlighter, auto-numbered steps, a magnifier loupe, icon stamps, and focus steps that spotlight key areas by dimming everything else. Every annotation lives on its own layer and stays fully editable until you export — select it any time to move, restyle, or delete.

Redaction

Blur it before you share it.

Blur or pixelate passwords, emails, tokens, and faces before a screenshot leaves your Mac. Both are applied as editable regions until export, so you can adjust exactly what's hidden.

On-Device AI

AI that never phones home.

Extract selectable text from any image (OCR), generate a description of a screenshot, isolate a subject and remove the background with Smart Select, or type a plain-English command to add annotations. Everything runs locally on Apple's Neural Engine — your images are never uploaded anywhere.

Layers & the .pixelnoted Format

Save the edit, not just the image.

Save as a .pixelnoted file to preserve the image plus every layer and annotation — double-click it in Finder later and keep editing where you left off. The Layers panel reorders and toggles annotations; the Library panel keeps recent captures one click away.

Privacy & Ownership

Nothing leaves your machine.

No account to create. No analytics running in the background. Pixel.Noted works completely offline — the only time it touches the network is if you choose to download an optional AI model. Your captures stay on your device.

Universal Binary — native Apple Silicon and Intel

macOS 14 Sonoma or later

Export to 7 formats — PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIF, TIFF, BMP, PDF

Copy straight to the clipboard — no file needed

Social media templates — frame exports for any platform

Export destinations — iCloud Drive, Desktop, Documents, or custom

Multi-display capture and recording

Color picker — eyedropper any pixel on screen

Timer-delay captures

Full undo / redo history

Crop with adjustable edges or drawn regions

Fully sandboxed (Mac App Store security model)

Get Pixel.Noted

Sold through the Mac App Store. No subscription, no account required.

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